Calle as a Millionaire
About Calle as a Millionaire
Calle Lundgren, shop assistant to the grocer Sillström, spends his days bullying the errand boy Nisse and flirting with the maid Amanda. He reads that he is sole heir to a Swedish-American millionaire, quits, and takes 75,000 kronor cash from a moneylender against a note for 100,000, payable when the inheritance arrives. In Marstrand he cuts out a hussar lieutenant and, helped by old Mrs. Sabelfelt's greed, marries her daughter Margareta. A gala dinner collapses when his drinking friend Bengt turns up. The lender then says the inheritance was a mistake and demands the 100,000. Calle answers that the note falls due only when the inheritance is paid.
Cast & crew
More about Calle as a Millionaire
Georg af Klercker directed and wrote the scenario for Hasselblads Fotografiska AB. Gustav A. Gustafson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gösta Stäring photographed it at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan, with exteriors in Marstrand. AB Victorias Filmbyrå distributed the 968-meter print. Swedish censors, certificate 16206, passed it for all audiences on 12 October 1916.
Themes
Making
Carl Barcklind, already a stage favorite, plays Calle. Maja Cassel is Margareta Sabelfelt and Tekla Sjöblom her mother. Arvid Hammarlund is the lieutenant and Gustaf Bengtsson is Bengt.
Reviews
The Swedish Filmography's press roundup says reviewers were notably friendly to this new Calle farce and that the word they repeated was dråplig. They praised the plotting, the photography, and the actors, above all Barcklind and the young man playing the errand boy.
Look
Gustav A. Gustafson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gösta Stäring shot the studio scenes on Otterhällan and the Marstrand exteriors.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
The Swedish cinematheque showed the film on 1 and 3 April 1992 and again on 29 May 1994.
Notes
- The original title on the books is Calle som millionär; the Swedish release title is Calle som miljonär.
- In Finland it was also sold as Kalle miljoonamiehenä.
- It opened at the Victoria in Gothenburg on 16 October 1916, then at the Sture and the Brunkebergsteatern in Stockholm on 31 October.
- Siri Lundin plays Amanda. Frans Oscar Öberg is the grocer Sillström. Ludde Gentzel plays Calle's valet.
- Reviews called the errand boy both Oscar Rasmusson and Orvar Rasmussen.
Scenes
- At a gala dinner in his new home, Calle welcomes his old drinking companion Bengt and the evening turns into a scandal.
- The moneylender demands 100,000 kronor, and Calle reads the note back: nothing is owed until the inheritance is actually paid.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-calle-som-miljonr)
